Rebekah Higgitt

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Historian of science and Principal Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh #histSTM #histsci #histodons #museums #academia
Websitehttps://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile/
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Bluesky@rhiggitt.bsky.social
Show threadRebekah HiggittFeb 15, 2024
@ncdominie More MacCaig, less shouty stuff
Show threadRebekah HiggittFeb 15, 2024
@ncdominie Lovely frog, and I love MacCaig!
I note you're here and Bluesky. How are you finding them compare? (I've not been here for ages)
Show threadRebekah HiggittFeb 15, 2024
@Lignedescience Sounds good! It's a shame it's all so fragmented on social media now
Show threadRebekah HiggittFeb 15, 2024
@Lignedescience @ThierryJoffredo A very belated hello and thank you! I'm mostly on Bluesky these days. What am I missing here on Mastodon?
Show threadRebekah HiggittMar 1, 2023
@telescoper I must stop this habit of coming here to check what’s up over there...
Rebekah HiggittFeb 9, 2023
Dr Sarah MiddleFeb 9, 2023
Awkward first post... gradually dipping my toes in the waters of Mastodon - hopefully I'll post here more than on Twitter. I expect most of my posts will be Digital Humanities-related, particularly in the areas of Linked Data, data modelling and open research, usually applied to cultural heritage or Ancient World contexts
Rebekah HiggittJan 5, 2023

Not sure how many Edinburgh-based folk are on here (and following me), but I’m giving a talk to the Old Edinburgh Club on 18 January about the city and its observatory in the 19th century

#edinburgh #observatories #history #astronomy #histsci #histSTM #histastro

Rebekah HiggittDec 24, 2022

Thread (on the other site) with the full 24 ‘doors’ of my bell-themed, science & technology museum collection, advent calendar 🔔 🎵 🎄
https://twitter.com/beckyfh/status/1598224766418264065?s=46&t=reaeh7X07BhwEbCJv_6pHA

#histsci #histSTM #museum #collections #bells

Rebekah Higgitt on Twitter

“This year’s mainly #histSTM-focused museum collection #AdventCalendar will be on this thread in Twitter and on Instagram. The theme will be.... Bells 🔔 🛎 🎵 ring ding-a-dong!🎄”

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Rebekah HiggittDec 23, 2022
Important, damning thread on the longer term impacts of austerity from @jburnmurdoch over on the bird site https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1606223922474627073?s=46&t=u0FsA2YhncSRBp1d6Qim4Q and FT story here https://www.ft.com/content/b2154c20-c9d0-4209-9a47-95d114d31f2b
John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) on X

NEW: Britain’s grim winter of strikes, falling incomes and a worsening NHS crisis is not some unfortunate series of events It’s the inevitable result of a decade of Tory austerity that steadily weakened the state’s capacity to respond to shocks https://t.co/xJcNiCJk2b Thread:

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Rebekah HiggittDec 21, 2022

Happy solstice!

This print, showing the seasons, equinoxes and solstices, is one of the first things I catalogued way back when I worked at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Description here: https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-263835

The Theory of the Seasons and Signs of the Zodiac | Royal Museums Greenwich